Hotfixes of the Year - Most Popular Hotfix Posts on Wowhead for 2018

As 2018 draws to a close, many sites and communities create traditional \u201cGame of the Year\u201d lists, ranking games across a variety of serious and silly metrics. While we can\u2019t quite do that here at Wowhead, as we focus on World of Warcraft, we\u2019ve decided to dive into the multitude of pageviews from 2018 and highlight what was the most popular in our community!\r\rToday we are highlighting the most popular news posts that contain hotfixes of 2018 on Wowhead. \r\rPopular Hotfix Posts Throughout 2018\r\r10. July 14: Last Minute Class Hotfixes before the BFA Pre-Patch\r3 days before the Battle for Azeroth Pre-Patch releases on live servers, Blizzard pushed one last set of class tuning changes via hotfixes on the Battle for Azeroth Beta. \r9. Aug 27: Auction House Changes\rAt the beginning of the expansion, the Auction House was very slow and took a long time to navigate. This set of hotfixes includes a large change for the Auction House to improve the responsiveness of the Auction House. \r8. Sept 7: Heroic Uldir and Azerite Trait Tuning\r3 days after Uldir releases, Blizzard nerfed Heroic G'huun and made changes to Fetid Devourer in Uldir. This hotfix set also comes with Azerite Trait and Mythic+ tuning as well. \r7. Aug 20: Darkmoon Deck Tuning\rAll Darkmoon Decks in Battle for Azeroth were changed including large changes to Mazzo delle Barricate di Lunacupa and Mazzo delle Burrasche di Lunacupa and allowing Mazzo degli Abissi di Lunacupa to be used by Hunters.\r6. Aug 28: Azerite Armor Trading\rAfter a lot of feedback from the community, Blizzard decided to allow Azerite Armor to be tradeable in these Hotfixes. \r5. Sept 24: Anchor Weed Changes, Class and Azerite Trait Tuning\rThe rarity of Alga d'Ancora in early Battle for Azeroth caused Flasks and Potions to be expensive and this hotfix increased the amount of Alga d'Ancora when gathered. In addition, these hotfixes contain a large number of class and azerite trait changes. \r4. Sept 17: Vantus Rune Nerf and Azerite Trait Tuning\rThe week after Mythic Uldir opened, Blizzard announced that Runa Vantus - Uldir would be getting nerfed. In addition, Blizzard nerfed a large number of popular Azerite Traits for the upcoming Weekly Reset and the World First race for Uldir was still going on at this point.\r3. Dec 8: Last Minute Class Hotfixes before 8.1\r3 days before the BFA Patch 8.1, Blizzard hotfixed a large number of class and azerite trait changes on the 8.1 PTR with large changes to Blood Death Knights, FIre Mages and Protection Warriors, \r2. Jan 8: Essenza del Risveglio Hotfix before 7.3.5\rOn the 7.3.5 PTR, a new item was found Essenza Titanica Purificata that allowed players to buy a Legiondary with Essenza del Risveglio. However, unless you still had the Uno sforzo titanico quest, you would not be able to collect Essenza del Risveglio until 7.3.5. Blizzard hotfixed it so all players could continue collecting Essenza del Risveglio without the need for the quest.\r1. Warglaives of Azzinoth Drop Location and Additional Hotfixes\rThis hotfix post was combined with a very popular topic: Information on How to Get the Warglaives of Azzinoth transmog drop. The hotfixes themselves aren't very exciting but the Warglaives information was very popular.\r\rMany of the top hotfix news posts include Class, Item and Azerite Trait changes -- people really are attached to their class and its balance! From the top 10:\rTHREE news posts containing hotfixes containing Blizzard-posted Azerite Trait changes\rTWO news posts containing last minute class and azerite tuning before a major patch\rONE news post containing Darkmoon Deck Tuning, which were powerful trinkets at the time. \r\rWith only one hotfix post from Legion, Battle for Azeroth hotfixes were much more popular, with large changes to the community's problems such as the Auction House and Azerite Armor Trading changes.

Commento di tyrunt

Commento di FuryDr00d

"Legiondary"\u2014I see what you did there, Wowhead.\r\rI first, I thought it was a typo and was like, "Really? Come on..." but then I realized that it made sense XD

Commento di Aarkan

on 2018-12-28T08:19:16-06:00

"Legiondary"\u2014I see what you did there, Wowhead.\r\rBlizzard called it that at Blizzcon when they were revealed.

Commento di Vetochka

on 2018-12-28T09:02:14-06:00

As 2018 draws to a close, many sites and communities create traditional \u201cGame of the Year\u201d lists, ranking games across a variety of serious and silly metrics. While we can\u2019t quite do that here at Wowhead, as we focus on World of Warcraft\r\rDo top delights and top disappointments in WoW of the year

Commento di Buuloki

on 2018-12-28T09:03:15-06:00

Is this worth posting?\r\rIt's just a bit of fun to recap these kinds of things at the end of the year. It's always interesting to me, to see what kind of obscure things like these are the most popular.

Commento di Finieous

on 2018-12-28T09:15:14-06:00

But what about all of the undocumented changes? :p

Commento di Peredhil

on 2018-12-28T09:43:36-06:00

I think 8.1 could be a decent candidate for a hotfix. Unless people are cynical and consider it the end of extended paid beta testing?

Commento di Snowy6

on 2018-12-28T09:52:08-06:00

Most read does not equate to most popular\r\rI think 8.1 could be a decent candidate for a hotfix. Unless people are cynical and consider it the end of extended payed beta testing?\r\rNo if people where really cynical they would consider it to be the end of the alpha :O

Commento di Lolus

on 2018-12-28T11:12:01-06:00

Most popular bugs would be a top 25+ :).

Commento di perculia

on 2018-12-28T11:12:28-06:00

Most read does not equate to most popular\r\rI think 8.1 could be a decent candidate for a hotfix. Unless people are cynical and consider it the end of extended payed beta testing?\r\rNo if people where really cynical they would consider it to be the end of the alpha :O\r\rThe title states "Most Popular Hotfix Posts on Wowhead." In this case, most read is the most popular since this is an information site for World of Warcraft. There's no way we can make an accurate statement on how the general community feels--we just have data from our own site community. We could in theory do "staff picks" but that's probably another round of different complaints that it's entirely subjective and based on the opinions of a few people. We're generally happy with how this year's end-of-the-year series has gone, and if you feel some notable hotfixes were missed in this list, but had a really popular reaction, feel free to share :)

Commento di Bulo

on 2018-12-28T11:44:14-06:00

good job wowhead team :) I love those sumaries

Commento di Snowy6

on 2018-12-28T14:24:30-06:00

Most read does not equate to most popular\r\rI think 8.1 could be a decent candidate for a hotfix. Unless people are cynical and consider it the end of extended payed beta testing?\r\rNo if people where really cynical they would consider it to be the end of the alpha :O\r\rThe title states "Most Popular Hotfix Posts on Wowhead." In this case, most read is the most popular since this is an information site for World of Warcraft. There's no way we can make an accurate statement on how the general community feels--we just have data from our own site community. We could in theory do "staff picks" but that's probably another round of different complaints that it's entirely subjective and based on the opinions of a few people. We're generally happy with how this year's end-of-the-year series has gone, and if you feel some notable hotfixes were missed in this list, but had a really popular reaction, feel free to share :)\r\rThe article was fine and interesting to see what they fixed, the title was all I did not agree with. Maybe Most read rather than Most popular?\r\rMaybe a poll on which people liked the best?\r\rPersonally I think most hotfixes are to fix things they broke in the first place, I would rather they stop breaking things than have to hotfix them.\r\rI would like to see a hotfix for Seafarer's Dubloon, since 8.1 and there being a lot more to buy with them the drop rate has gone down quite significantly.

Commento di Ellore

on 2018-12-28T15:10:00-06:00

Most read does not equate to most popular\r\rI think they mean popular in the same sense that The Black Plague was popular in Europe. A lot of people participated, but it wasn't fun.

Commento di kaleestraza

on 2018-12-28T15:14:03-06:00

Bizarre idea for a post

Commento di 4ldaris

on 2018-12-28T16:29:28-06:00

I really like this series of posts

Commento di Elektrospecter

on 2018-12-28T23:26:39-06:00

Nice list, I actually enjoyed reading this post and reflecting on the hotfixes from this past year.